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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by notyourday on Friday October 11, 2019 @03:58PM (#21227863)
Brain dead workers. Ask what to do. Fetch the needed data. Do the thing with that job. Signal job completion or failure. Die. Wait for a supervisor to restart you for the next job.
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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by yellowapple on Friday October 11, 2019 @05:51PM (#21228815)
Yep. Nowadays Erlang (or Elixir) would be my tool of choice for that, but before discovering those (or when that felt like overkill) a quick Perl script would be my way to go.

Incidentally, apply this to web requests/responses and you've invented CGI (where Perl was incredibly useful, even if PHP happened to be a bit more popular).

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